Still "F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems persists"
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 5 13:04:12 UTC 2008
Andrew Farris wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> See my earlier posts for details; this still persists.
>>
>> I've not noticed that anyone's asking for information.
>>
>> Photo at http://js.id.au/img2038.jpeg
>> It's a bit blurry, I think the camera doesn't handle the contrast
>> well, but it is legible.
>
> I've had this on some kernels and not on others, but what is more
> interesting is it can go away depending on what kernel you installed
> them from. There was talk of a mkinitrd error when installing from
> 2.6.24 kernels, but I get that problem for some kernels when I install
> from 2.6.23-1 and not for others, and sometimes they install fine from
> the latest.
>
> My advice.. keep lots of prior kernels, I've currently got
> installonlyn=10, and I've locked the oldest kernel to not get removed as
I was wondering about this:
installonly_limit=8
installonlypkgs=kernel*
I then did a
yum install kernel
and there was only one left.
> well. I just installed the -80 rawhide kernels, had both give this
> switchroot issue, then uninstalled them and reinstalled them and both
> work. Get the kernel rpm cached, and try installing it from 2-3
> different kernel versions... (a pretty weird issue).
>
I didn't install any .24 kernels, I've got a .23 that yum doesn't now about.
I think I'm up to six consecutive kernels that don't work.
After I wrote this, I booted my pocket .23 and found it didn't work very
well. So, I installed one this way - a handy hint for he terminally
desperate:
rpm2cpio
</var/cache/yum/updates/packages/kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64.rpm |
cpio --extract -d
rpm -qp --scripts
/var/cache/yum/updates/packages/kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64.rpm
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install
2.6.23.9-85.fc8
and that's what's working now.
Anyone else with this might add there two bob's worth here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436099
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John
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